PAZUKHIN Pyotr Vasilyevich

PAZUKHIN Pyotr Vasilyevich (1.4.1889– 23.7.1917), musicologist, folklorist. Author and compiler of the 2nd part of the musical-folk collection “Samples of motifs of Chuvash folk songs and their texts” (Simbirsk, 1912), which included 98 notated round dances, weddings, recruiting of soldiers, and ritual Chuvash songs (about 650 verses) from 9 uyezd districts of Simbirsk, Kazan, and Ufa guberniya provinces. Four folklore works included in the collection were recorded and provided by K.V. Ivanov.

I.G. Petrov